iWork4Him PowerThought

We can spend  a whole year  preparing for a short-term mission trip .   But how much time have you spent preparing for your workplace mission field ?   We need to prepare our souls daily as we get ready for work .   What does that mean ?   So often, our souls have been hurt and damaged by the people we work with and the people we live with .   Preparing our souls means forgiving those who have sin...

We can spend  a whole year  preparing for a short-term mission trip .   How much time have you spent preparing for your workplace mission field ?   We need to prepare our minds daily as we get ready for work .   What does that mean ?   Spending time in God's word, prayer, journaling, and  just plain  quiet time .   If we jump out of bed, get ready for work, and take  off down  the driveway, our mi...

We can spend  a whole year  preparing for a short-term mission trip .   But how much time have you spent preparing for your workplace mission field ?   We need to prepare our hearts daily as we get ready for work .   What does that mean ?   It means confessing our sins to our heavenly Father before our day starts .   Confessing just means agreeing with God for what He already knows about our attit...

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace. There is brokenness in us, in our world, work, and community. There is healing in Jesus. Today as you have zoom calls, meetings, sales calls, service calls, or power lunches, look for the broken around you through God's eyes. See people the way He sees them… as Image bearers. In following Jesus, we are to be like Him...

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace .  Frederick Buechner once said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."  I believe the greatest need  is the healing of the lost and broken.  Likely you have  noticed brokenness in your workplace that needs to be healed. What are you doing about it? Praying...

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace. Frederick Buechner said, "Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the Holy is drawing near." What injustice in your community brings you to tears? Homelessness, poverty, joblessness, sexual exploitation? What can you do about it? God provided you...

How about praying for that bad boss or coworker who you struggle with? Most of the reason you  likely struggle  with them, is that they are not living or leading with the Holy Spirit's guidance, but how could we ever expect them to, if they  don't  know God? Now if  you're  like me,  it's  still tough to get yourself to pray for bad superiors. But again, like everyone, they have burdens, internal ...

Unforgiveness can destroy us. God knows our heart of flesh can become hardened and lifeless if the wounds we have received are not allowed to heal. Jesus told all his disciples that we are to forgive others as we would like God to forgive us. In the workplace, there are people who look out  for only  themselves. Many times, their actions and attitudes can create  in us something very unholy . We m...

God taught me how to shift the paradigm of work into a place of work interlaced with ministry, a workplace mission field. I prayed for those I worked with, I served them over and above, I befriended them, and I prayed with them. But I  realized,  none of these actions mattered if my work  wasn't  excellent. If I  wasn't  a great employee, with  great work  production, and  great work  relationship...

During my morning commute to my new job, I began praying for the people I worked with and then serving them above what I  was required  to  do  but I knew that more was needed to shift my faith paradigm at work. I needed to really know  these  people I worked with. My wife and I started creating ways to get to know people outside of work to develop real relationships. We had people over for dinner...

Have you ever met someone that lives one integrated life? They seem to flow seamlessly between their work and personal life without pause or care .   What is this?  It's   authenticity . And its attraction is unparalleled. How is it possible?  It's  living a life based on Godly values.  I'd  hazard a guess a person like this lives their values in this order: God, Family, and Service .   When we  l...

We live in the midst of a non-stop world.  Our responsibilities at home and work fill our  thoughts  the instant we wake up, then run with us throughout the day. Our jobs, meetings, phones, TV, personal  trials  and temptations are relentless, noisy invaders that drive us all our waking hours. The result – we  can't  hear God in our life, not enough anyway .   Would you recognize the Lord's soft v...

·        Martha: Welcome to the iWork4Him Power thought for the day, we are Jim and Martha Brangenberg with iWork4Him    ·        Jim: During your commute today, whether  its  walking down the hallway or driving down the highway, what will you think about?   ·        Martha: Will you be caught up in the stress of the day or will you be preparing your heart for what God is going to do today, alongs...

Do you act differently around your pastor than you do around your family or friends ?   Most people do – even those who  don't  go to church.   We feel like we have to be on our best behavior.   We  can't  be our authentic  selves .   On the other hand, how do coworkers act around each other ?   It's  usually easier to speak freely with the people we work with, especially if  we've  taken time to...

You are a missionary. You know how I know? You are on a mission field in your workplace with lost and hopeless people who speak a different language than most people around you. Most of those around you speak in terms of hurt and disappointment. You speak a message fueled by love, forgiveness, and hope. Every day you talk with people, work with  people  and interact with people who have never hear...

You are a missionary. You are ready for this assignment. You are equipped with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit inside of you, giving you access to all the power of God. You have been dispatched to your workplace on purpose because lost and hopeless people there need to meet Jesus. Because you work there, you understand the culture and the tasks at hand. You know the daily  stresses  and...

You are a missionary. Mission work takes time. For many of you, you have  trained for  this mission, Sunday after Sunday for decades. You have studied daily for thousands of combined hours. You have worn your carpet thin with hours of interactive training with our  Father . You have a calling and a gifting, and they have been combined to provide a career as a fully funded missionary. You have work...

You are a missionary. You are on a mission. Your Workplace is your mission field. Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 & 20 - Now wherever you go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age." There is...

This week we paid special attention to  you , the everyday workplace believer, and your role in bringing God's Kingdom here to earth .   Just because  you're  not a pulpit pastor or a foreign missionary  doesn't  mean that  you're  not in full-time ministry .   Your workplace is your mission field !   You might be the only representative of Jesus that your coworker, vendor, supervisor, or client e...

·        Jim: Welcome to the iWork4Him Power thought for the day, we are Jim and Martha Brangenberg with iWork4Him    ·        Martha: When Jim & I were 13 we committed our lives to full-time Christian Ministry .   So naturally I thought I would be a pastor's wife or a missionary.   ·        Jim: I thought I was going to be a youth pastor .     ·        Martha: When we got married, I naturally tho...

Perhaps the  single most devastating sentence I ever hear is this "I have decided to quit my job and go into full-time Ministry." Ugh…This one sentence describes the condition of the hearts and minds of millions of Christians. It is a misunderstanding that  stops  today . You  don't  need to quit your job to go into full-time ministry. You are already a full time fully funded, fully trained missio...

Do you want to see your workplace as a place to live out your faith? Your work is a place where you finally get that chance to be involved in fulltime ministry. Then do these things. 1st Start praying for those you work around, by name every day. 2nd look for ways to serve those same people over and above what your job requires you to do. 3rd  look  for ways to build a friendship with those you wo...

Modern church culture emphasizes the importance and prestige of working in full-time ministry as a pastor, foreign missionary, or the like.  But here at iWork4Him, we want to help resurrect the original idea behind the idea of ministry.  There's a theological misunderstanding that the top jobs in the Kingdom are missionary and pastor, but that's simply not true!  There are no tiers in the kingdom....

What do you do when  you're  faced with a problem at work?  If you're like me, you probably go about trying to find a solution, usually starting with Google!   We met and interviewed a remarkable woman named Susan. She went to God first, not google. She asked HIM for the answer to the problem. And kept praying in earnest expectation until He answered .   She said to us "God has the answer to every...

When Jim came home one day and said,  I think  we should hire a prayer intercessor for iWork4Him, I  didn't  know what to think .  We had heard from and interviewed business leaders and organization leaders from around the country with prayer intercessors on their staff. I thought it was powerful,  but  I  had never considered that someone should be paid to pray. We pay people to do all kinds of o...